GB832751A - Improvements in or relating to straight bar knitting machines - Google Patents

Abstract

832,751. Knitting. COTTON Ltd., W. June 26, 1956 [July 1, 1955], No. 19116/55. Class 74 (2). In the successive production, on a straightbar machine, of knitted fabric portions from the same yarn, each of which portions is pressed-off after completion, the yarn Y extending obliquely from its carrier 5 to the selvedge of a contracted, finished and pressed-off blank on the take-up roller 1 is pulled into a direction YP normal to the needle line and swung down between two adjacent sinkers by a hook 9 adjustably carried on a rod 6 which, by means of a handle 11, can be reciprocated axially, between limits determined by an abutment 12 on the rod and fixed and adjustable stops 13, 16, and oscillated about its axis between limits determined by the cooperation of stops 17, 18 with two faces of the template rail 8. The yarn is thus clear of the points 4 of a point bar 3 as they are advanced to the needles to transfer thereto a length of rib fabric RF in extension of which the remainder of a new blank is to be knitted from the yarn Y. When, as in intarsia or plated work, a plurality of yarns extend from the last blank, a plurality of hooks is used. These hooks may be mounted on a common bar, all the yarns being secured to a cleat at one side of the machine section. When the inclinations of the yarns demand it, the hooks may be in two sets, facing in opposite directions and mounted on two bars 47, 48, the hooks being appropriately located on the rods relatively to such yarns as required to be pulled one way or the other to bring them normal to the needle line. The rod or rods may extend along the length of a multi-section machine, the controls being situated in, or in the region of, an intermediate non-knitting section. Specifications 763,591, 797,871 and 813,435 are referred to.